[Scan-DC] Twelve-code on the NYC Transit Authority

[b_thom at juno.com]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/nyregion/thecity/04feat.html

What the Motorman Saw 
By JAKE MOONEY
Published: December 4, 2005

....
The authorities did not release the names of the two-person crew on the
train that struck Mr. Guzman last week, the train operator and conductor
whose lives were changed forever. But based on the dozens of cases of
people struck by subway trains each year - events known in transit
parlance by the code 12-9 - it is easy to speculate on what their last
week must have been like. 

Minutes after the train grinds to a halt after a 12-9, it is the train
operator's job to climb down, flashlight in hand, and inspect the tracks.
The logic is that the operator is inevitably among the first people on
the scene, and whoever is under the train could still be alive and either
in need of help, bruised or bleeding, or inches from the perilous third
rail.